Child Maltreatment is one of the most critical public health problems of our time. Maltreatment has severe short and long term health, mental health, and social impact. The Institute of Medicine has indicated that one of the most serious educational pr

B. What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service?

This course meets the needs for training, as well as being a required part of the Certificate for prevention of injury and violence and the new Certificate on Children’s mental health and trauma. This course is a content elective in Maternal and Child Health for students interested in family violence and is available to students in social work, education, criminology, and other programs who are interested in expanding their course of study.

C. Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times?

Yes, ten or more times. This course was approved several years ago but when the Board of Education was decentralized, the course was never assigned a number in Tallahassee and remained a 6934 course despite its approval. Efforts to solve the numbering pr

D. What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.)

Doctorate in Public Health or related field

Other Course Information

A. Objectives

The course objectives include:

1. Examination of the epidemiological patterns of child maltreatment, including incidence, prevalence, risk and protective factors.

2. Analysis of the impact of various types of child maltreatment including health, mental health, social and economic factors.

3. Assessment of evidence based models of prevention, intervention, and associated policy issues.

4. Analysis of issues regarding research in child maltreatment, including problems of issues of measurement, sampling, and funding.

B. Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course the students will be able to:

1. Describe the most prevalent forms of child maltreatment, including incidence, prevalence, and epidemiologic patterns.

2. Analyze the etiology and impact of various types of child maltreatment.

3. Critique public policy and program issues surrounding the prevention of and intervention into child maltreatment issues, especially as they relate to public health.

4. Analyze issues surrounding research into child maltreatment, especially those related to evaluation.